The following platforms are known to support threaded Perl at press time. More platforms support threaded Perl every month - if yours isn't on the list, you can grab the lat-est version of 5.005 and try anyway.

VMS supports threads on all versions and platforms that support Perl.

Digital Unix Version 4.x.

Solaris Version 2.5 and up are reported to work - earlier 2.x versions may as well.

OS/2 supports threads on all versions and platforms that support Perl.

IRIX Version 6.2 and newer work. Version 6.2 needs some OS patches to safely use threaded Perl.

Linux 2.x Requires the linuxthread package.

NeXT Version 4.1 reports successful compilation.

Win32 Perl builds with threads on either Windows 95 or Windows NT when using Visual C++ 4.0 and up, or Borland C++ 5.02 and up. On Windows 95, you'll need the 4DOS/NT command shell and dmake in addition to one of the compilers.